A group of buildings used by military personnel as housing(noun)
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barrack.(verb)
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Use "barracks" in a sentence
"Most people are living in either tents or what they call her barracks which are temporary houses made out of very thin plywood."
"They come for one-week periods and stay in barracks at the group's headquarters in a cavernous former hardware store just a few blocks from the shore."
"Mr. KUEFFNER: No. Actually, he went to speak to them, to one of the main barracks here in Quito, the capital."